Wednesday, May 09, 2012

"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace"~Dalai Lama~

Years from now a new generation of Americans will look at this age we are living in as one of the most regressive and backwards time in our history. Yes I know we elected an African American to be our president, (albeit a half one) but that might have been the catalyst that is helping to take us back to the dark ages.

Yesterday in North Carolina the citizens of that state voted for an amendment to their state's constitution declaring that marriage should be between a man and a woman. ---Yes, because marriage between a man and a woman in those Southern states have been working out so beautifully. Not!

Of course these types of events should come as no surprise to us. Not when almost half of republican voters in one state believe that Loving V. Virginia was decided the wrong way. I suspect that these are the same types of people who keep preparing for the coming race war. (Great, a brotha can't even go to Disney World anymore without having to worry about some Deliverance type dude with an AK-47 trying to split his wig. BTW, FOX calls them a "civil rights" group.)

In a way, it has already started. Most of you just don't know it yet. But the folks who control the narrative in this country certainly do, and they use it to play on the fears of the naive and innocent without them even knowing it. (h/t Tia)
And don't expect so called scholars and journalist to call it out. Most of them have already chosen which side they are on.

So anyway, with all of this as a backdrop, it was nice to see O come out in support of marriage equality. ---Better late than never I guess-- Although we all know that this was part political calculation and part conscience. He says he is "evolving." That's fine. Whatever it takes to get you there, O. At least you are there now. The folks on the other side will have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21 Century. It could be awhile. Look how long it took them to recognize us black folks as citizens.

“I have the same view on marriage that I had when I was governor and that I expressed many times. I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman,” Romney told reporters and about 30 supporters at an appearance with Republican Gov. Mary Fallin...Romney called same-sex marriage a “tender and sensitive topic,” and he acknowledged that not everyone agrees with him. Decisions about hospital-visitation rights and other benefits should be determined by the states, he said. “But my view is that marriage itself is a relationship between a man and a woman.”

"Should be determined by the states"? Hmmm, where have I heard that before?

87 comments:

Anonymous
said...

speaking of the race war

more racist black mob attacks.

Star-Ledger…

A roving band of teenagers assaulted five people as they left a sold-out concert at Newark’s Prudential Center Saturday night, leaving one man unconscious and another with a fractured eye socket during a two-minute crime spree, according to police officials and incident reports.

The attacks happened as nearly 20,000 guests departed from a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert and marked only the second major reported crime at the arena since it opened in 2007, officials said.

When it was all over, three teenagers and two adults had been beaten and robbed along Broad Street between Market and Lafayette Streets, according to the police reports. One victim, a 23-year-old Pennsylvania man, suffered a fractured eye socket and needed 12 stitches to close wounds to his lip and eyebrow, the reports said.

The same group attacked a father and son from Morris County, stealing their cell phones and the older man’s wallet. The teens cornered the 14-year-old boy and repeatedly punched and kicked him, the reports said. A cab driver and parking attendant intervened and helped the boy, who then discovered his father unconscious and bleeding nearby, according to the reports.

The same group of thieves, described by Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio as a band of 10 or 15 “thugs,” assaulted and robbed two Livingston teenagers, according to the reports.

“It’s so unfortunate that this one group of kids can cause something like this to happen,” DeMaio said. “It’s sad.”

The president stressed that this is a personal position, and that he still supports the concept of states' deciding the issue on their own"

And your point perpetuates a misunderstanding of "state's rights". The fact that the concept of state's rights was used to justify slavery and segregation does not delegitimize the concept of state's rights. The fact that firehoses were used against civil rights protesters does not delegitimize the use of firehoses to put out fires.

Do you really want the federal government dictating every detail of how 300 million Americans live their lives?

Where does it once mention skin color in the entire article? Oh, it doesn't.

As for the evolving decision of the President to support same-sex marriage, at least he's being honest about it. He's not pandering by changing his beliefs about it every time he gets a new question, unlike Mitt and Ron Paul.

Why the sudden flurry of attacks on whites for purported racism since about the time Mitt Romney wrapped up the Republican nomination? Several media figures have been fired: Naomi Schaefer Riley, John Derbyshire, Robert Weissberg, and others widely defamed (Lena Dunham, Lesley Arfin, and even Zooey Deschanel). What's behind this spring's hysteria among the chattering class?

Clearly, some whites are being punished to encourage the others. But ... to encourage the others to do what, precisely?

To not even think about not re-electing the black President. Don't go there. The message that's being sent is: bad stuff happens to people who don't like blacks, which, for practical purposes in 2012 can be defined as people whom blacks don't like, or whom blacks might not like if they ever noticed them.

The ultimate message is one that can't be sent publicly, at least not before a lot more ground is prepared via Two Minute Hates or Two Month Hates in the case of George Zimmerman:

Nice little gentrified downtown you've got there. It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it Election Night because some vibrant youths were displeased that their side lost.

This is my last time addressing this but LOL at whites talking about a black person beating a white JUST because a black person attacks a white does not mean its because of race, idiot stop playing the race card. Why aren't you talking about what happened at Cornell university? Now THAT was a hate crime because the crackers were mentioning Trayvon Martin.

RuggerDucky, As for the evolving decision of the President to support same-sex marriage, at least he's being honest about it. He's not pandering by changing his beliefs about it every time he gets a new question, unlike Mitt and Ron Paul.

Anonymous said... Dr Reine, "Much like the so called "anonymous field negro" aka conspicious peckerwood, who dominated the previous post."

If you hate being called Nigger, why do you use racist terms when speaking to people you think are white? I know you are used to double standards, lower expectations, lower achievements get higher rewards, but this is too much.

The ultimate message is one that can't be sent publicly, at least not before a lot more ground is prepared via Two Minute Hates or Two Month Hates in the case of George Zimmerman:

Nice little gentrified downtown you've got there. It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it Election Night because some vibrant youths were displeased that their side lost.

This time unlike the last 100 years of black riots it isn't going to work. Storeowners will be picking off looters from rooftops, citizens will be gunning down vandals, criminals, murderers, violent attackers. And police/fireman will be loathe to go into black neighborhoods when they start burning where they live. Let it burn and good luck rebuilding because non black suburbia can't afford to support Black America anymore. It's time for evolution to happen.

Like someone said, race isn't even mentioned your racist low IQ ass assumed because the word mob was mentioned it was black people. For your information booboo the fool most of us aren't checking for bands like Red Hot. I like rock myself and even I am not a fan. Also mobs by whites happen all the time in rock,metal and screaming concerts. I'm done. Back on topic I'm not shocked Obama is supportive of gay marriage. I suggest you to do some research field and you'll see what I'm talking about.

We do not use inflammatory and racist terms such as Crackers or Peckerwoods on FN. Some of you Negroes are out of control. I have never heard such nasty racist terms before in all of my life. It is plain as day that you Negroes are from the South or DC with no education and low IQs.

Either you decease from such ignorant moronic comments or I will report your black asses to Field and you deleted.

WhitesHaveLowIQ's said, "Back on topic I'm not shocked Obama is supportive of gay marriage. I suggest you to do some research field and you'll see what I'm talking about."

11:27 PM-----------------------------------Dear Sir: get another ID because the one you are using is another racist term on FN by a Negro.

In addition, your insinuation about Obama is disgusting. Furthermore it is not true, you LIAR. Mr. Field has too many other things to do than go researching for something that is not even there. Why don't you provide a link, LIAR!

Obama is either from Heaven or Hell but he can't be from both. He reads the Bible which proves he is straight...end of story.

I have listened to the sooper geniuses and their wisherating for a 'race war' for nigh on 40 years. Most lack the training to survive any confrontation where the opponent is armed. They are also fantasizing about their level of competence.In a true 'race war'...most of these Goobers would be cannon fodder.

Odd that fellow citizens dream of murdering other US citizens. Rather creepy, eh?

Brother Field....you played sports when you were a young lad, I am sure. When one team is so much better than a lessor team, there was no reason to belittle their skills unless you were worried about them. No, commenters, I am not referencing race wars. Are you aware that Black Africans and Carribean American are more educated than the majority? When will they compare and denigrate Asians when they blast the "Negro from the south". By the way, more Blacks, by numbers, are educated in the south than any other part in American. We had a head start......we have damn near all the HBCU. Go North Carolina Central University 76.....go Howard University 80. Lastly....I have never heard of Minister Farrakhan promoting violence towards whites. He does espouse protecting your family, self and neighborhood. Blacks have been so dependent on the majority largess for too long. The majority, in my mind, should cut them off.....oh but then the poor majority will have to swim also.

Damn Field, for what it's worth you even have gay talking points down.

What gives you the confidence to make a strong statement that you are "pretty sure" Raul wouldn't be attractive to the Gay Man down the street? Do you know the Gay man down the street? Have you seen Raul? Are you an expert on man love and make this statement having intimate knowledge of the characteristics usually foundattractive in other men?

"Decisions about hospital-visitation rights and other benefits should be determined by the states..."

That is not only politically but psychologically inept, and as such is becoming a Romney trademark. He takes the one instance that calls forth most Americans' compassion and then waffles? This election is going to be amazing: the best campaigner of my lifetime against the worst. Will the contrast be totally lost on voters? Will C-pacs succeed in putting lipstick on the animatronic pig?

Anonymous said... I have listened to the sooper geniuses and their wisherating for a 'race war' for nigh on 40 years. Most lack the training to survive any confrontation where the opponent is armed. They are also fantasizing about their level of competence.In a true 'race war'...most of these Goobers would be cannon fodder.

Odd that fellow citizens dream of murdering other US citizens. Rather creepy, eh?

Mold

Heh Mold, you don't know this but I have called you the "Slinky" ever since I found out you were Uptown Steve. Why the "Slinky"? Simple, like a Slinky you aren't of much use in life but still fun as hell to watch fall down the stairs.

Anonymous said... I have listened to the sooper geniuses and their wisherating for a 'race war' for nigh on 40 years. Most lack the training to survive any confrontation where the opponent is armed. They are also fantasizing about their level of competence.In a true 'race war'...most of these Goobers would be cannon fodder.

My daughter can hit a quickly moving target at 50 yards and she is 12. Her mother can handle a desert eagle and is a black belt in tae kwon do and has practised Hung Gar kung fu for 20 years.

Our three sons , well lets just say they know the value of planning, preparing and staying finely honed and fit and possess a working skill with numerous weapons including survival and business skills. Our successful neighbors are well trained and stocked.

What else do they have that you don't? Brains and courage. They have enough courage to walk away from someone like you, hell even run if needed when it doesnt matter, it's easier in the long run. But don't ever confuse that with what they can do if they have to defend themselves and choose to end it.

You might want to talk to the normal majority of americans. You will find that they aren't as soft mentally or physically as the weak willed low esteemed pandering liberals who give you the only credibility you have are. Nor as tolerant of your violent antisocial behaviour and rhetoric.

It's easy to act on your animal impulses, loot, burn, steal, maim, kill, attack in packs. It takes courage and discipline to think and plan ahead for the eventuality that you need to eliminate that.

You don't have a chance. Your weak will could never provide the discipline and resources/tools needed.

We Democrats love minorities so much, we also know it's really hard being a minority. That's why we set up planned parenthood and give millions of dollars of your money to them for abortions. This helps millions of minority children escape the burden of living every year!!!

Boys will be boys:...John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it....A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors....Romney is now the presumed Republican presidential nominee. His campaign spokeswoman said the former Massachusetts governor has no recollection of the incident....In an English class, Gary Hummel, who was a closeted gay student at the time, recalled that his efforts to speak out in class were punctuated with Romney shouting, “Atta girl!”...Saul, Romney’s campaign spokeswoman, said the candidate has no recollection of the incident....http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html

First off: "Prop's" are due Obama for his support of "same sex marriage"; especially in the face of this withering storm of repugnican-led hate and ignorance. BTW: Where are you AB?

Second: Reptilian-brained "whites/caucasians/'crackers'- whatever you wanna call them - have stockpiled weapons/ammo in anticipation of an imagined "race war"/ This, in spite of the ongoing fratricide in the AfrAm community? Geez; only in a-merry-kkk-a; bless us all.

And, finally: A trip to any WAL-MART, or, surprisingly, any SF/Bay Area supermarket IS a frightening peak into the ocean of obesity plaguing a-merry-kkk-a.And, what's up with big healthy looking bodunkadunk, buff-a-rillas using parking spaces designated for the handicapped?

Keep promoting the disgusting liberal agenda. This year depravity has a new threshold. Now you can go down on your platoon mate in the trenches, marry some guy who will stick it in your rear and still call yourself a man.

Now the liberals in New York have deemed looking at child porn is not a crime. Next it will be creating child porn because if it isn't a crime to look at it, surely you can't be oppressive to the disadvantaged pedophiles. Then they will move on to nationwide forced acceptance of child relations.

Anonymous said... First off: "Prop's" are due Obama for his support of "same sex marriage"; especially in the face of this withering storm of repugnican-led hate and ignorance. BTW: Where are you AB?

Are you all so easily fooled? His Gay fundraisers weren't going to give him the same money, Biden screwed up and he had to choose. He already abandoned the majority of Americans so needs the fringe lunatics and the money.

It's called Gay for Pay. He could care less about you, he's been gay before Michelle, he just wants the homo lollipop funds.

"it began with his refusal to evade race and avoid any black agendathat gave racist a model to use to ignore blacks alsoand to deny black misery"

Ignore Blacks and deny Black misery? You sound as if you think the world is your parents and owes you something. Why does someone need to acknowledge you and feel sorry for you and the misery you create or they are racist? Don't they have their own miseries?

alicia banks said... obama was openly bi in IL and he has never really been against gay marriage

ask anyone in the chi

he is seeking gay votesONLY

but it still took great courage to tell the truth...even belatedly with ulterior motives

sokudos to president obama!

Nah, courage is standing up for things you really believe in with conviction. Not when you say something hard because you have no choice, are forced to and are outed by someone else. If he came out because he believed this, I would disagree but respect it. But he didn't he had no choice. The press was all over him for the last four days, Romney barely started the campaign, doesn't have a VP yet and is beating him in the polls and his press secretary was getting a beating from the MSM about his waffling on gay marraige daily. So they cancelled the daily white house briefing, scheduled a interview with Obama and changed to do damage control. That isn't courage, that's convienant cowardice.

Never trust a person who says whatever you want to hear, they usually are lying to you.

"So anyway, with all of this as a backdrop, it was nice to see O come out in support of marriage equality."

"Marriage" is a word that human society has used to define an official relationship between a man and a woman for about the last 10,000 years or so.

Two men or two women pretending they are married is not the same thing, i.e. it is not equal. We have 'evolved' to calling this a "partnership".

They should be (and are) free to pursue their relationships in peace. They do not have, in the name of "equality", the right demand the word marriage be redefined to include their relationships, because same sex relationships are not equal to unions between a man and a woman.

For one thing, gay relationships cannot produce children without outside assistance. Society has a legitimate interest in promoting heterosexual family foundation as it the best way to produce raise the next generation.

In the name of equality, gay couples want the same advantages of marriage as those bestowed by society on heterosexual marriage, even though gay marriage does not offer the same benefits to society.

This is like childless people demanding to get dependent children tax deductions in the name of 'equality'. When a confused person asks for something that they do not merit, the answer should be "no".

Gay marriage is not the same as heterosexual marriage; therefore not conferring the same benefits is not a violation of anyone's civil rights.

Unlike you, I'll agree with Obama that the states should decide the issue on their own. If the people in Massachusetts want to let Barney Fwank and his latest boy toy pretend they are Ozzie and Harriet, fine and fucking dandy. If the people in Wyoming say that people can two people can do what they want in private, but we are not going to officially call anybody Mr. and Mrs. Cowboy, then that should be fine too.

We are a tolerant culture that is becoming more libertarian as time goes by. The federal government should not be dictating morality one way or the other. At the same time, local communities should be able to maintain their own standards in matters that do not violate people's rights. There is no "right" to have a different kind of relationship given the same status as marriage.

People who choose an alternative lifestyle should respect the feelings of the majority, and their right to reserve certain privileges to activities that further perpetuation and survival of society.

We have "evolved" from ensuring tolerance for homosexual lifestyles to mandating approval. It is a perversion of the civil rights concept of equality to demand favoritism. At some point, unreasonable people demanding special status should be told "no". Unless of course they live in Massachusetts.

With that in mind, Dr. Field Negro, please let me know if the length or frequency or tone of my posts is inappropriate in anyway & I will gladly cease & decist while still continuing to enjoy your site immensely! Honestly, even some of the more unsavory responses to your posts are hilarious in their racism & ignorance & baselessness & irrationality. Sadly though, they're mimetic.

Also, Dr. Reine, if you'll indulge me in a bit of presumption. I think I uninentionally offended you by my choice of names to post my responses under. My intention in choosing that name was to have a bit of fun with the anonymous posters who were attacking you for your laudable goals & accomplishments as if it were impossible for you to achieve them. I myself am a medical doctor (1 of approx. 30,000 in the U.S. who are members of the African diaspora) and I personally know many, many doctors of all kinds from the Juris Doctors to the Doctors of Philosphy & everything in between who are also members of the African diaspora. So I congratulate you on your accomplishments thus far & those still to come. My apologies for offending you...if I did.

My intention in choosing that name was to have a bit of fun with the anonymous posters who were attacking you for your laudable goals & accomplishments as if it were impossible for you to achieve them. I myself am a medical doctor (1 of approx. 30,000 in the U.S. who are members of the African diaspora) and I personally know many, many doctors of all kinds from the Juris Doctors to the Doctors of Philosphy & everything in between who are also members of the African diaspora. So I congratulate you on your accomplishments thus far & those still to come. My apologies for offending you...if I did.

I must have missed that post, what exactly were her accomplishments that you are giving her props for?

I myself am a Peruvian, Black and partially White Eye Doctor. I already graduated so just like the Fake DR Rene I have "no class"

The Aryan Brothers have completed and successfully "sabotaged" your comment section. I will from this point on read only your blog...I am still a fan, but enough is enough of this racist, backwards ignorance from all the Anonymous idiots.

"Also, Dr. Reine, if you'll indulge me in a bit of presumption. I think I uninentionally offended you by my choice of names to post my responses under. My intention in choosing that name was to have a bit of fun with the anonymous posters who were attacking you for your laudable goals & accomplishments as if it were impossible for you to achieve them."

I appreciate your apology and offer my own in return. It's simply IMPOSSIBLE to distinguish between decent folks and the racist slime that have ruined the comments section here.

:I appreciate your apology and offer my own in return. It's simply IMPOSSIBLE to distinguish between decent folks and the racist slime that have ruined the comments section here."

I hear ya, theres one person going around calling people peckerwoods, talking about them killing themselves, talking about nasty sexual things...someone should give that person a mirror, if she can stand looking at her own ugly nappy head.

NEWARK — Three teenagers were arrested in connection with a series of violent assaults that occurred after a weekend concert at Newark's Prudential Center, police said Thursday.The Prudential Center in Newark.RECORD FILE PHOTOThe Prudential Center in Newark.

Police Director Samuel DeMaio said two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old were arrested Wednesday after police received a tip. All have been charged with rioting, aggravated assault, robbery and conspiracy.

Police said a gang of about 15 youths attacked people as they left a concert by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. A Pennsylvania man suffered a fractured eye socket and another man suffered a broken collarbone.

The attacks happened in the span of a few minutes, with the group attacking five people in three separate incidents along the main city thoroughfare of Broad Street, according to police.

"I am alarmed that our youth who should either be at home under a parent's supervision or engaged in some type of productive or recreational activity, are instead roaming our streets creating mayhem through senseless and random acts of violence," DeMaio said Thursday.

Police received a tip Wednesday afternoon that the three suspects had boarded a NJ Transit bus in Newark. They stopped the bus on Broad Street, a few blocks from the arena, and arrested the teens without incident.

"I commend the excellence of the Newark Police Department in making arrests in what was an isolated and unfortunate incident," Mayor Cory Booker said.

Also Wednesday, police arrested three juveniles after they allegedly assaulted and tried to rob a man in Newark's Ironbound section. It was not known whether that incident and the arena attacks were connected.

Police and city officials said Saturday's attacks were only the second violent incident at the arena, which has had more than 8 million visitors since it opened in 2007.

In March 2009, a gay couple who had just left a Britney Spears concert at the arena were attacked and robbed by a marauding group of young people.

The liberal media, such as the New York Times, consistently portray anti-gay-marriage advocates as bigots.

This is nonsense. Most Americans are neither intolerant nor bigoted. Rather, they understand that marriage is the basic institution of society. For thousands of years in the West, it has had a privileged role. Marriage solidifies the bonds between a man and a woman, laying the foundation for raising children in stable families. It is the glue that binds a functioning, viable social order. Marriage is the natural unit that enables society to perpetuate itself from one generation to the next. This is not hate; it’s common sense.

It is why, for example, the drive to ban same-sex marriage in North Carolina was led by black pastors and churches. It also is why the black and Hispanic vote was pivotal to passing California’s Proposition 8, which also upholds traditional marriage. Blacks and Hispanics - although key Democratic voting blocs - tend to be deeply Christian and socially conservative. Mr. Obama has put himself on a collision course with large segments of his base. He has kissed away major swing states, such as North Carolina and Virginia. He also is further alienating Middle America, which still believes in pro-family values. In short, Mr. Obama is committing political suicide.

The liberal media, such as the New York Times, consistently portray anti-gay-marriage advocates as bigots.

This is nonsense. Most Americans are neither intolerant nor bigoted. Rather, they understand that marriage is the basic institution of society. For thousands of years in the West, it has had a privileged role. Marriage solidifies the bonds between a man and a woman, laying the foundation for raising children in stable families. It is the glue that binds a functioning, viable social order. Marriage is the natural unit that enables society to perpetuate itself from one generation to the next. This is not hate; it’s common sense.

It is why, for example, the drive to ban same-sex marriage in North Carolina was led by black pastors and churches. It also is why the black and Hispanic vote was pivotal to passing California’s Proposition 8, which also upholds traditional marriage. Blacks and Hispanics - although key Democratic voting blocs - tend to be deeply Christian and socially conservative. Mr. Obama has put himself on a collision course with large segments of his base. He has kissed away major swing states, such as North Carolina and Virginia. He also is further alienating Middle America, which still believes in pro-family values. In short, Mr. Obama is committing political suicide.

Here's what I want to know: Who recognized THEM as citizens?? The true citizens of this joint are the NATIVE AMERICANS. Everyone else is "barefootin'." If we were all born in China, would we be Chinese?? I rest my case.

Here's what I want to know: Who recognized THEM as citizens?? The true citizens of this joint are the NATIVE AMERICANS. Everyone else is "barefootin'." If we were all born in China, would we be Chinese?? I rest my case.

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